My bad - I misspelled his surname - it's Pearse. http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/pearse.html http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/pearse/pearse.htm http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Pearse/Pearse.html http://www.destination.co.nz/temuka/pearse.htm http://www.auckland-airport.co.nz/NewsHistory/aviators.php?pearse http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/geoff.rodliffe/ http://www.answers.com/topic/richard-pearse http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/FamousNewZealanders/Richard.asp http://www.enzed.com/hist.html
These should do. But the important thing is that he never made got anywhere in his endeavours - partly because he never made any contact with the outside world until very late on, partly because New Zealand never had time for anyone who was slightly eccentric. It's a sad story - and they're now trying to capitalise on his inventiveness now, when they had no time for him while he was alive. Wesley Parish On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:47, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 21:46:03 PM +1200, Wesley Parish > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > One NZ inventor - Richard Pierce - who believed in this > > "working-in-secret" has the distinction of never having his > > inventions in the fields of aviation or anything else, actually get > > taken up anywhere. So as an inventor he's incredible, as a > > practical success - he wasted his life. > > Any URL for this guy? Couldn't find any info from Google :-( > > Ciao, > Marco -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
